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Scott Eblin

Executive coach Scott Eblin’s goal is to help you succeed at the next level of leadership. Throughout the week, he’ll offer his take on the leadership lessons in the news and his advice on your most pressing leadership questions. A former government executive, Scott is a graduate of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.

March 22, 2011
One of the most e-mailed articles on the New York Times website for the past several days has been one titled, "Don't Call Me, I Won't Call You." My guess is a lot of grown up kids are sending it to their parents to prove that they're not the only...

March 18, 2011
A brief article in the Financial Times of London recently reported that Mark Prisk, England's enterprise minister is drawing up a plan in which government ministers and senior civil servants would have to complete a week's work assignment in a small business. Prisk's own staff has taken up the plan....

March 17, 2011
The New York Times recently ran an article about what Google has done lately to share the practices of its best managers throughout the company. Being Google, a bunch of statisticians started looking for correlations in the words and phrases that came up again and again in performance reviews, feedback...

March 15, 2011
Like many other people around the world this past weekend, I was transfixed by the news of the epic disaster that hit Japan on March 11. I've noticed that almost all of the coverage so far has been straight news and very little commentary. In my own case, I find...

March 14, 2011
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post called Five Principles for Building a Strong Network. It proved to be pretty popular and I've been practicing and coaching on those principles ever since. Today, I want to share twelve steps to having a good networking conversation. With the idea...

March 9, 2011
Every so often, a word or phrase will pick up so much buzz that everyone starts talking about it at once. This week, the catch phrase "no fly zone" has achieved that status. As the Libyan dictator Gaddafi and the forces rallying against him continue to battle, more and more...

March 8, 2011
One of the most popular aspects of my company's group coaching program, Next Level Leadershipâ"¢ for high potential leaders is the senior executive guest speakers who come in for a lunch time "what I've learned" conversation. They talk about what they've learned over the course of their career and what...

March 7, 2011
If you've been around organizations for any length of time, you don't need a research study to tell you that newly hired or promoted executives often struggle in their new roles. You've likely seen it with your own eyes. A recent survey of 320 executives and talent management professionals conducted...

March 2, 2011
As the author of The Next Level, the coaching engagements that I'm asked to take on often involve supporting an executive who's taking on a bigger job, leading after a reorganization or some other situation where the stakes are high and the expectations are different. As the old saying goes,...

February 28, 2011
There's an old joke that my adopted hometown of Washington, DC is Hollywood for, well, um, not so attractive people. So, of course, to see all the beautiful people in one place one watches the Academy Awards. I'm a big movie buff (Witness my post from a few months ago...

Database-level encryption had its origins in the 1990s and early 2000s in response to very basic risks which largely revolved around the theft of servers, backup tapes and other physical-layer assets. As noted in Verizon’s 2014, Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR)1, threats today are far more advanced and dangerous.

In order to better understand the current state of external and internal-facing agency workplace applications, Government Business Council (GBC) and Riverbed undertook an in-depth research study of federal employees. Overall, survey findings indicate that federal IT applications still face a gamut of challenges with regard to quality, reliability, and performance management.

PIV- I And Multifactor Authentication: The Best Defense for Federal Government Contractors

This white paper explores NIST SP 800-171 and why compliance is critical to federal government contractors, especially those that work with the Department of Defense, as well as how leveraging PIV-I credentialing with multifactor authentication can be used as a defense against cyberattacks

This research study aims to understand how state and local leaders regard their agency’s innovation efforts and what they are doing to overcome the challenges they face in successfully implementing these efforts.

The U.S. healthcare industry is rapidly moving away from traditional fee-for-service models and towards value-based purchasing that reimburses physicians for quality of care in place of frequency of care.